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<p>Tackling climate change is a priority for the UK Government and for DFID. Under
the Paris agreement the UK has pledged to deliver £5.8bn of International Climate
Finance between 2016 and 2020 to help poorer countries tackle climate change.</p><p>These
funds are helping to build the resilience of people and communities to cope with climate
change already locked in and taking action to reduce future emissions. The UK has
helped 47 million people cope with the effects of climate change since 2011.</p><p>The
UK is also working to increase international action on climate change. The Prime Minister
has been asked by the United Nations Secretary General to help secure more ambitious
and urgent action to build climate resilience, ahead of the Summit on Climate Change
in September 2019.</p><p>Climate change, environmental degradation and natural disasters
do not create refugees, who are defined as people fleeing persecution and conflict.
However the UK recognises that climate change contributes to the displacement of people
in the most vulnerable regions. This is why a major focus of our work is to build
the resilience of those communities.</p>
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